Natural Resources

This is an attempt to develop an order to natural resources and how they may be encountered on planetary surveys. It is based upon this flawed & incomplete concept. All known and (Star Trek) fictional naturally-occurring elements will be categorized here.

Note: Two previous attempts to come up with a comprehensive resources hub are located here: Resources II / Resources III . They should be deleted when they no longer serve any purpose.

Natural Resources table

Resource	Type	Category	Deposits	Applications
Actinium	element	Radioactive
Aluminum	element	Base Metal
Aluminum oxide	compound	Common
Ammonia	compound	Common
Amphibole	compound	Common
Antimony	element	Base Metal
Antimony trioxide	compound	Common
Antimony tetroxide	compound	Common
Antimony pentoxide	compound	Common
Argon	element	Noble Gas
Arsenic	element	Common
Arsenic trioxide	compound	Corrosive
Arsenic pentoxide	compound	Common
Astatine	element	Radioactive
Barium	element	Base Metal
Barium oxide	compound	Corrosive
Beryllium	element	Base Metal
Biotite	compound	Common
Bismuth	element	Base Metal
Bismuth oxide	compound	Base Metal
Boron	element	Base Metal
Bromine	element	Corrosive
Cadmium	element	Base Metal
Calcium	element	Base Metal
Calcium oxide	compound	Corrosive
Carbon	element	Common
Carbon dioxide	compound	Common
Carbon monoxide	compound	Common
Cerium	element	Rare Earth
Cerium oxide	element	Rare Earth
Cesium	element	Base Metal
Chlorine	element	Corrosive
Chromium	element	Base Metal
Chromium oxide	compound	Common
Cobalt	element	Base Metal
Cobalt oxide	compound	Common
Copper	element	Base Metal
Copper oxide	compound	Common
Cyanoacetylene	compound	Common
Dysprosium	element	Rare Earth
Erbium	element	Rare Earth
Ethanol	compound	Common
Europium	element	Rare Earth
Feldspar	compound	Common
Fluorine	element	Corrosive
Formaldehyde	compound	Common
Formic acid	compound	Common
Francium	element	Radioactive
Gadolinium	element	Rare Earth
Gallium	element	Base Metal
Germanium	element	Base Metal
Gold	element	Precious
Hafnium	element	Base Metal
Helium	element	Common
Holmium	element	Rare Earth
Hydrocarbon	compound	Common
Hydrochloric acid	compound	Common
Hydrocyanic cyanide	compound	Common
Hydrogen	element	Common
Illite	compound	Common
Indium	element	Base Metal
Iodine	element	Corrosive
Iridium	element	Precious
Iron	element	Base Metal
Iron oxide	compound	Common
Kaolinite	compound	Common
Krypton	element	Noble Gas
Lanthanum	element	Rare Earth
Lanthanum oxide	compound	Rare Earth
Lead	element	Base Metal
Lead oxide	compound	Common
Lithium	element	Common
Lithium oxide	compound	Base Metal
Lutetium	element	Rare Earth
Magnesium	element	Base Metal
Magnesium oxide	compound	Common
Magnetic monopole	matter	Exotic
Manganese	element	Base Metal
Manganese oxide	compound	Common
Mercury	element	Base Metal
Mercury oxide	compound	Corrosive
Methane	compound	Common
Methanol	compound	Common
Molybdenum	element	Base Metal
Muscovite	compound	Common
Neodymium	element	Rare Earth
Neon	element	Noble Gas
Neptunium	element	Radioactive
Neutronium	matter	Exotic
Nickel	element	Base Metal
Nickel oxide	compound	Base Metal
Niobium	element	Base Metal
Nitric acid	compound	Common
Nitrogen	element	Common
Nitrous oxide	compound	Common
Olivine	compound	Common
Osmium	element	Base Metal
Oxygen	element	Corrosive
Ozone	compound	Common
Palladium	element	Precious
Phosphoric acid	compound	Common
Phosphorus	element	Common
Platinum	element	Precious
Plutonium	element	Radioactive
Polonium	element	Radioactive
Potassium	element	Base Metal
Potassium oxide	compound	Base Metal
Praseodymium	element	Rare Earth
Promethium	element	Rare Earth
Protactinium	element	Radioactive
Pyroxene	compound	Common
Quartz	compound	Common
Radium	element	Radioactive
Radon	element	Noble Gas
Rhenium	element	Base Metal
Rhodium	element	Base Metal
Rubidium	element	Base Metal
Rubidium oxide	compound	Base Metal
Ruthenium	element	Base Metal
Samarium	element	Rare Earth
Scandium	element	Base Metal
Selenium	element	Common
Silicon	element	Common
Silicon monoxide	compound	Common
Silver	element	Precious
Silver oxide	compound	Precious
Smectite	compound	Common
Sodium	element	Base Metal
Sodium oxide	compound	Base Metal
Strontium	element	Base Metal
Sulfur	element	Corrosive
Sulfuric acid	compound	Common
Super fluid	matter	Exotic
Tantalum	element	Base Metal
Technetium	element	Radioactive
Tellurium	element	Base Metal
Terbium	element	Rare Earth
Thallium	element	Base Metal
Thallium oxide	compound	Exotic
Thorium	element	Radioactive
Thorium oxide	compound	Radioactive
Thulium	element	Rare Earth
Tin	element	Base Metal
Tin oxide	compound	Common
Titanite	compound	Common
Titanium	element	Base Metal
Titanium oxide	compound	Common
Tungsten	element	Base Metal
Tungsten oxide	compound	Common
Uranium	element	Radioactive
Uranium oxide	compound	Radioactive
Vanadium	element	Base Metal
Water	compound	Common
Xenon	element	Noble Gas
Ytterbium	element	Rare Earth
Yttrium	element	Base Metal
Zinc	element	Base Metal
Zinc oxide	compound	Common
Zircon	compound	Common
Zirconium	element	Base Metal
Zirconium oxide	compound	Common

Resource categories

Base Metals

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Aluminum	element
2	Antimony	element
3	Barium	element
4	Beryllium	element
5	Bismuth	element
6	Bismuth oxide	compound
7	Boron	element
8	Cadmium	element
9	Calcium	element
10	Cesium	element
11	Chromium	element
12	Cobalt	element
13	Copper	element
14	Gallium	element
15	Germanium	element
16	Hafnium	element
17	Indium	element
18	Iron	element
19	Lead	element
20	Lithium oxide	compound
21	Magnesium	element
22	Manganese	element
23	Mercury	element
24	Molybdenum	element
25	Nickel	element
26	Nickel oxide	compound
27	Niobium	element
28	Osmium	element
29	Potassium	element
30	Potassium oxide	compound
31	Rhenium	element
32	Rhodium	element
33	Rubidium	element
34	Rubidium oxide	compound
35	Ruthenium	element
36	Scandium	element
37	Sodium	element
38	Sodium oxide	compound
39	Strontium	element
40	Tantalum	element
41	Tellurium	element
42	Thallium	element
43	Tin	element
44	Titanium	element
45	Tungsten	element
46	Vanadium	element
47	Yttrium	element
48	Zinc	element
49	Zirconium	element

Commons

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Aluminum oxide	compound
2	Ammonia	compound
3	Amphibole	compound
4	Antimony trioxide	compound
5	Antimony tetroxide	compound
6	Antimony pentoxide	compound
7	Arsenic	element
8	Arsenic pentoxide	compound
9	Biotite	compound
10	Carbon	element
11	Carbon dioxide	compound
12	Carbon monoxide	compound
13	Chromium oxide	compound
14	Cobalt oxide	compound
15	Copper oxide	compound
16	Cyanoacetylene	compound
17	Ethanol	compound
18	Feldspar	compound
19	Formaldehyde	compound
20	Formic acid	compound
21	Helium	element
22	Hydrocarbon	compound
23	Hydrochloric acid	compound
24	Hydrocyanic cyanide	compound
25	Hydrogen	element
26	Illite	compound
27	Iron oxide	compound
28	Kaolinite	compound
29	Lead oxide	compound
30	Lithium	element
31	Magnesium oxide	compound
32	Manganese oxide	compound
33	Methane	compound
34	Methanol	compound
35	Muscovite	compound
36	Nitric acid	compound
37	Nitrogen	element
38	Nitrous oxide	compound
39	Olivine	compound
40	Ozone	compound
41	Phosphoric acid	compound
42	Phosphorus	element
43	Pyroxene	compound
44	Quartz	compound
45	Selenium	element
46	Silicon	element
47	Silicon monoxide	compound
48	Smectite	compound
49	Sulfuric acid	compound
50	Tin oxide	compound
51	Titanite	compound
52	Titanium oxide	compound
53	Tungsten oxide	compound
54	Water	compound
55	Zinc oxide	compound
56	Zircon	compound
57	Zirconium oxide	compound

Corrosives

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Arsenic trioxide	compound
2	Barium oxide	compound
3	Bromine	element
4	Calcium oxide	compound
5	Chlorine	element
6	Fluorine	element
7	Iodine	element
8	Mercury oxide	compound
9	Oxygen	element
10	Sulfur	element

Exotics

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Magnetic monopole	matter
2	Neutronium	matter
3	Super fluid	matter
4	Thallium oxide	compound

Noble Gases

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Argon	element
2	Krypton	element
3	Neon	element
4	Radon	element
5	Xenon	element

Precious

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Gold	element
2	Iridium	element
3	Palladium	element
4	Platinum	element
5	Silver	element
6	Silver oxide	compound

Radioactives

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Actinium	element
2	Astatine	element
3	Francium	element
4	Neptunium	element
5	Plutonium	element
6	Polonium	element
7	Protactinium	element
8	Radium	element
9	Technetium	element
10	Thorium	element
11	Thorium oxide	compound
12	Uranium	element
13	Uranium oxide	compound

Rare Earths

Roll	Resource	Type
1	Cerium	element
2	Cerium oxide	element
3	Dysprosium	element
4	Erbium	element
5	Europium	element
6	Gadolinium	element
7	Holmium	element
8	Lanthanum	element
9	Lanthanum oxide	compound
10	Lutetium	element
11	Neodymium	element
12	Praseodymium	element
13	Promethium	element
14	Samarium	element
15	Terbium	element
16	Thulium	element
17	Ytterbium	element

Resource Subtables

Note: The Star Control planet names will be dropped after the completion of this section.

Note: Tier 1 represents an enormous presence on the planet; Tier 2 is large; Tier 3 is moderate; Tier 4 is rare; Tier 5 is trace.

Table R1

• Acid:
  • 12x formic acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, and sulfuric acids; one other common
  • 8x fourteen other commons

Table R2

• one alkali base metal (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium) (Tier 2 assessment)
• Barium (Tier 3 assessment)
• Calcium (Tier 3 assessment)
• Strontium (Tier 3 assessment)
• one other alkali base metal [see above] (Tier 3 assessment)
• three other base metals (each Tier 4 assessment)

Table R3

• Carbon (Tier 2 assessment)
• two other commons (each Tier 3 assessment)

Table R4

• Chlorine:
  • 20x chlorine, hydrochloric acid
  • 12x one other corrosive, one other common
  • 8x zinc, gallium
  • 4x four other base metals

Table R5

• Cimmerian:
  • 12x methane, ammonia, methanol, lithium
  • 8x eight other commons

Table R6

• Chondrite:
  • 12x ethanol, one other common
  • 8x four other commons

Table R7

• Copper (Tier 1 assessment)
• one other base metal (Tier 2 assessment)

Table R8

• Barium (Tier 2 assessment)
• Beryllium (Tier 2 assessment)
• Bismuth (Tier 2 assessment)
• Boron (Tier 2 assessment)
• Bromine (Tier 2 assessment)
• one light base metal (aluminum, magnesium, titanium, beryllium, lithium, sodium, potassium) (Tier 2 assessment)
• five other base metals (Tier 3 assessment)
• one light base metal [see above] (Tier 3 assessment)
• one other corrosive (Tier 3 assessment)

Table R9

• Cyanic:
  • 20x cyanoacetylene
  • 12x two other commons

Table R10

• Dust:
  • 12x in either a silicate oxide (quartz, feldspar, olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, biotite, muscovite, kaolinite, illite, smectite, titanite, zircon) or a metal oxide (aluminum oxide, antimony trioxide, antimony tetroxide, antimony pentoxide, arsenic trioxide, arsenic pentoxide, barium oxide, bismuth oxide, calcium oxide, cerium oxide, chromium oxide, cobalt oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, lanthanum oxide, lead oxide, lithium oxide, magnesium oxide, manganese oxide, mercury oxide, nickel oxide, potassium oxide, rubidium oxide, silver oxide, sodium oxide, thallium oxide, thorium oxide, tin oxide, titanium oxide, uranium oxide, tungsten oxide, zinc oxide)
  • 8x one other silicate or metal oxides
  • 4x bismuth, aluminum, and potassium
  • 1x three other base metals

Table R11

• Fluorescent:
  • 20x technetium, neon
  • 12x one other radioactive
  • 4x radon
  • 1x one other noble gas

Table R12

• Green:
  • 12x praseodymium, neodymium
  • 8x two other rare earths

Table R13

• Halide:
  • 16x bromine
  • 8x fluorine, iodine, astatine
  • (another) 8x in either fluorine, iodine, astatine
  • 4x in two other corrosives
  • 4x in one other radioactive

Table R14

• Hydrocarbon:
  • 20x hydrocarbon
  • 12x two other commons
  • 4x tantalum
  • 1x bismuth, two other base metals

Table R15

• Mercury (Tier 1 assessment)
• one other base metal (Tier 2 assessment)

Table R16

• Iodine (Tier 2 assessment)
• one base metal (Tier 2 assessment)
• one other corrosive (Tier 2 assessment)
• two other base metals (Tier 3 assessment)

Table R17

• Cerium (Tier 2 assessment)
• Lanthanum (Tier 2 assessment)
• Ytterbium (Tier 2 assessment)
• 3 other heavy rare earths (dysprosium, erbium, gadolinium, holmium, lutetium, terbium, thulium, yttrium) (each Tier 3 assessment)
• 6 other rare earths (each Tier 4 assessment)

Table R18

• one base metal (Tier 3 assessment)
• 2 other base metals (each Tier 4 assessment)

Table R19

• Magnetic:
  • 12x nickel, niobium, one other ferromagnetic metal (cobalt, dysprosium, gandolinium, iron)
  • 8x three other ferromagnetic metals
  • 4x magnetic monopole
  • 1x two other exotics

Table R20

• one base metal (Tier 2 assessment)
• one corrosive (Tier 2 assessment)
• one precious (Tier 2 assessment)
• two other base metals (Tier 3 assessment)
• two other corrosives (Tier 3 assessment)
• two other precious (Tier 3 assessment)

Table R21

• one noble gas (Tier 2 assessment)
• two other noble gases (Tier 3 assessment)
• helium (Tier 4 assessment)
• two other commons (Tier 5 assessment)

Table R22

• Oolite:
  • 8x one rare earth, one noble gas, one base metal
  • 4x two other rare earths, two other noble gases, two other base metals

Table R23

• Plutonic:
  • 12x one base metal, one radioactive, one rare earth
  • 8x two other base metals, two other radioactives, two other rare earths

Table R24

• Primordial:
  • 8x three commons, three base metals
  • 4x six commons, six base metals

Table R25

• one radioactive (Tier 3 assessment)
• two other radioactives (Tier 4 assessment)

Table R26

• Redux:
  • 12x one base metal, oxygen, chlorine, sulfur, one other corrosive (bromine, fluorine, iodine)
  • 8x two other base metals
  • 8x two remaining corrosives

Table R27

• Selenic:
  • 12x two of either aluminum, calcium, or selenium; one other base metal
  • 8x six other base metals

Table R28

• lead (Tier 2 assessment)
• one other dense base metal (copper, iron, nickel, tin, zinc) (Tier 2 assessment)
• two other dense base metal (see above] (Tier 3 assessment)
• four other base metals (Tier 4 assessment)

Table R29

• Ultramarine:
  • 12x one precious metal
  • 8x one corrosive, one common
  • 8x two other precious metals
  • 4x two other corrosives. two other commons
  • 1x one base metal

Table R30

• Water:
  • 12x one base metal
  • 8x two other base metals
  • 4x corrosives, radioactives
  • 1x two other corrosives, seven other radioactives

Table R31

• Yttric:
  • 20x yttrium, ytterbium
  • 8x one other base metal, one other rare earth
  • 4x two other base metals, two other rare earths